Unraveled Wednesday | 2.7.18

Greetings Unravelers! It is a snow day here in Pittsburgh, so Steve is home today. Yeah, that changes up my day a bit! But, the knitting is really heating up and we are only seven days into February!

Clue Two will be out tomorrow and my mystery socks are eagerly awaiting more knitting time.

I am coasting on Strokkur, the joy of Lopi Knitting is perhaps one of the greatest things ever for me. I can see Sleeve Island in my near future as I am less than 20 rows from the sleeve join.

But, on Friday night, these projects will be put on pause for a moment, so I can begin the Olympic-Bang-Out-A-Carbeth Knitting frenzy! Now, all other Bang-Out Knitters began on the fifth, but I am patiently waiting for Opening Ceremony and this project a Two-fer – Bang-Out-A-Carbeth-Olympic-Knitting! All the yummy brown yarn in the photo above will soon be a Carbeth and I can’t wait!

My second Olympic Project, because I am positive that Carbeth will be done quickly, are some Log Cabin Mitts I am just in love with them and I have lots of bits and bobs of left over yarns to use! These might take me more time to knit that the Carbeth! Ha! And, maybe some mini-hearts! The cuteness!

Now, on to the reading:

I finished The Woman Who Smashed Codes. Oh.my.gosh. I loved it and I really hate that I have finished it, there should have been more chapters to read! As others have said, this book might be the best book I will read all year. I am utterly and entirely in love with Elizebeth and William Friedman. I cried. I laughed. I said wow more than once and oh my gosh is she so smart! This is a 5-star book that I highly recommend. Really, add this book to your read list right now!

I also finished Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. This book…just wow. I sincerely hope this dystopian world never, ever, ever becomes reality. It is well written, thought provoking, and profound. It spurred some very interesting discussions on the value of life. I gave this book 4-stars.

I have started listening to Sherman Alexie’s You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me and I am reading The Snow Child on my iPad at night when I get into bed and I just started Ali Smith’s Winter which came from the library this week.

If you are joining us today, welcome! Please leave the link to your post in your comment! What’s keeping you warm in February?

P.S. Please excuse the absolutely horrid photo, it is dark, grey, and super icy-rainy-snowy here today and the light is almost non-existent!

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I have been looking at the Carbeth but it seems so bulky and I am not sure I have a season for that kind of sweater. And honestly, I should just settle down and enjoy the knitting on my needles because I do have a lot on progress and a new shawl to cast on soon. So fun to knit all the things

Love the color for your Carbeth – it will be gorgeous! I am still so tempted, but I did pick up Sigla (after setting it aside almost a year ago) and made progress on it and am loving it. So, I will hold off on Carbeth.

I’m in the midst of The Woman Who Smashed Codes and it really is so good!

I think I could really like Carbeth… love the design… but I think I need to curb my enthusiasm and concentrate on what’s happening now, and what’s already been planned. But those Log Cabin Mitts!! (I immediately downloaded that pattern when I saw it last week… so it’s sort of already “planned,” right?) Haha!! Those would also be good travel knitting.

The log cabin mitts pattern is lovely isn’t it? I really want to copy the ones Karen made – something a bit monochromatic.
Oh and those books sound interesting, I might have to add them to my reading list for the year!

Oh my gosh! I love those log cabin mitts. They’d be such a great, quick way to use up little bits of left over worsted.
As for your “horrid photo,” I’m fascinated by that yarn. On my screen, it’s showing up as weirdly brown and not yellow, but not gold…. and I’m a little in love with it.
I’ve got The Woman Who Smashed Codes in my Kindle que, but haven’t started reading it yet.http://www.jgknits.com/2018/02/closure.html

I love the log cabin mitts as well. As soon as I finish the fingerless gloves I am making for my hubby I am casting those on. I have some Brooklyn Tweed odds and ends I am planning to use. The construction of them look pretty interesting.

We had a delayed start due to ice, but there was no ice here, so I didn’t even have to slip and slide my way into work.

If you want to start knitting earlier on Friday, I think the official Ravellenic Games start time is something like 6 a.m. EST to correspond with the time difference between PyeongChang and here (and I think NBC has said they’re going to broadcast events live, rather than time-delay them).

I might pull out my Icelandic yarn and restart my cardigan for my Olympic knitting (and the Lopi-along). It’s the unspun stuff, so it’s not going to be good out-and-about knitting, but let’s be honest — how much of that do I really do?

Those snowy- icy-rainy days are great for knitting. I like those Log Cabin mitts as well. I will keep chugging along with my knitting projects rather than begin a new Ravellenic project. Stay safe and warm. We had snow yesterday but sun and cold today. It is beautiful though.

Still waiting for the Smashed Codes. . . (but inching ever higher on the list). I’m also considering a Carbeth. I love the look and the design. But . . . cropped. I’m just not quite sure. And I, personally, think it’s going to take some creative re-designing to make it as appealing with a longer length — because what makes that design so appealing in the first place is the perfect blend of line and shape. Which is . . . cropped. Are you making yours cropped? And if not, what are you thinking of doing with it? (I’ve been thinking about this one for weeks . . . ever since it first graced my computer screen.) 🙂

The Smashed Codes sounds like a book I need to check out! I saw the Carbeth project but I got hooked on a new pattern The Easy Bulky One new in Ravelry and she has a KAL too. I had 8 skeins of Swish Bare Bulky yarn and I have been dyeing it varying shades of blue in Black Beans. Here’s my blog today filled with lots of tips on dyeing with the beans. http://lovelyyarnescapes.blogspot.com/2018/02/wednesdays-yarns-feeling-blues.html

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